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Durkheim

[ US /ˈdɝkˌhaɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. French sociologist and first professor of sociology at the Sorbonne (1858-1917)

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  • Wallace and Wolf trace the development of structural functionalism to Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Durkheim.
  • The book will probably be more attractive to Durkheim specialists and graduate students than to novices in the field.
  • Una primera va de anlisis podra descansar en las ideas clsicas de Durkheim, cuya concepcin sobre la funcin amicable de la religin sugiere ver en este tipo de prcticas un hecho social, donde la sociedad es una especie de ser higher criminal el que sus miembros establecen relaciones de dependencia y subordinacin. Archive 2009-12-01
  • This places Durkheim in the company of social reformers as diverse as Will Keith Kellogg, conceiver of the cornflake, and Mies van der Rohe, builder of the Bauhaus, both of whom founded institutions on a mission to integrate the individual within a collective plan where its energies could be rationally ordered and to avoid social disintegration. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
  • For Durkheim, comparison was the most important method of analysis in sociology.
  • Durkheim attributes the process of individualization of property in turn to two processes.
  • At the École Durkheim studied chiefly history and philosophy, and after graduation he gained a position as a philosophy teacher in a lycée.
  • Leyburn points out that since the Scotch-Irish were never a "minority," in the sense that their values differed radically from the norms of their areas of settlement, they never suffered the normlessness which Durkheim calls anomie -- the absence of clear standards to follow. The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
  • For Durkheim this explained the harshness of punishment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when absolute monarchy was at its height.
  • Of course, Durkheim did not directly transpose this rather slighting view of economic pursuits from the context of preliterate, tribal existence to that of more advanced societies.
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